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Post by gwynthegriff on Mar 17, 2021 17:50:35 GMT
For something ceremonial or honorary then ok let them keep going until they drop but when there’s an actual job of work to be done - and other people are relying on your competence - then you have to step aside before you lose the plot. Being a councillor, MP or whatever is not just about you, it’s about the residents who put you there (and pay your salary / allowance). Well, of course said residents do always have the option of not re-electing a councillor whom old age has rendered ineffective. The residents are unlikely to know they are ineffective through old age. Especially when the election leaflets show a photograph taken several decades ago!  |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Mar 17, 2021 22:57:59 GMT
Who are these Northern Independence people?
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Post by BucksDucks on Mar 17, 2021 23:22:23 GMT
Who are these Northern Independence people?
I'm not sure but I think this was their last party conference:
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Post by John Chanin on Mar 18, 2021 6:17:03 GMT
Who are these Northern Independence people? Their website is just a placeholder calling for donations and members. Other than northern independence they claim to be “democratic socialists”. No idea who they are or what politically speaking they represent. I’d guess that like most such localist groups they’d prefer to keep their political views as vague as possible to maximise possible support. |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Mar 18, 2021 6:49:33 GMT
Who are these Northern Independence people? Their website is just a placeholder calling for donations and members. Other than northern independence they claim to be “democratic socialists”. No idea who they are or what politically speaking they represent. I’d guess that like most such localist groups they’d prefer to keep their political views as vague as possible to maximise possible support. You guess wrong. They seem to be a pretty standard issue hard-left outfit, largely former Labour supporters aggrieved that their faction no longer controls that party (which they describe as a 'right-wing' party, while anything to the right of that is of course 'Fascist'). Most of their supporters seem to have pronouns in their bios, obsess about trans rights, refugees etc This is the kind of account they tend to retweet for example |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Mar 18, 2021 12:22:37 GMT
The longlist for the Labour candidate reportedly has one name on it.
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Post by manchesterman on Mar 18, 2021 12:36:46 GMT
A reminder of what Keir Starmer said in Feb 2020 then...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2021 12:41:29 GMT
A reminder of what Keir Starmer said in Feb 2020 then... Of course it could be that only one person applied |
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Post by greenhert on Mar 18, 2021 13:01:00 GMT
A longlist with only one candidate is not a longlist at all.
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Post by greenhert on Mar 18, 2021 13:02:21 GMT
A reminder of what Keir Starmer said in Feb 2020 then... For a vacancy created by a by-election? Give me a break! Even for the Mid Staffordshire by-election of 1990 which the Conservatives lost on a 22% swing to Labour, 250 applicants applied to be the Conservative candidate! |
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Post by rivers10 on Mar 18, 2021 13:07:34 GMT
Yeah there's no way there was only one applicant, being an MP is a highly coveted position and if there was even a slither of a chance you'd win you'd get a dozen careerist applicants alone
There's no way there was only one applicant, it would be totally unprecedented, this once again stinks
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Post by The Bishop on Mar 18, 2021 13:14:41 GMT
More galaxy brainery from galaxy brains?
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Post by ricmk on Mar 18, 2021 13:52:23 GMT
Am I the only person thinking how funny it would be if it's Anna Rothery?
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Post by manchesterman on Mar 18, 2021 13:56:24 GMT
It would be funnier if she stood in Rotherham
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Post by pragmaticidealist on Mar 18, 2021 14:04:21 GMT
It would be funnier if she stood in Rotherham Lee Rotherham was the Tory candidate in Rotherham in 2005. |
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Post by manchesterman on Mar 18, 2021 14:07:33 GMT
It would be funnier if she stood in Rotherham Lee Rotherham was the Tory candidate in Rotherham in 2005. That would really cause confusion if he stood for the Tories and Anna stood for Labour! |
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Post by La Fontaine on Mar 18, 2021 14:20:37 GMT
In the absence of a surge of spontaneous encouragement from my local contacts, I decided not to apply. It has however brought back memories of one of my best campaigning days, when we had Stephen "Blakey" Lewis haranguing the good folk of Hartlepool from an open-topped bus.
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Post by Merseymike on Mar 18, 2021 14:22:05 GMT
If this is so, then Labour must lose. Indeed, its imperative that any other party but Labour win.
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Post by CatholicLeft on Mar 18, 2021 14:25:41 GMT
In the absence of a surge of spontaneous encouragement from my local contacts, I decided not to apply. It has however brought back memories of one of my best campaigning days, when we had Stephen "Blakey" Lewis haranguing the good folk of Hartlepool from an open-topped bus. I remember seeing that on the news - good memories. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Mar 18, 2021 14:49:03 GMT
A longlist with only one candidate is not a longlist at all. What if the candidate has a surname like Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville? |
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